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Today we host a deeply inspiring and perspective-shifting chat with the one and only Bayo Akomolafe. Bayo grew up in Lagos, Nigeria, and is a father, son, brother, life partner, author, poet, teacher, public intellectual, international speaker, post-humanist thinker, and so much more. He is also the visionary founder of the Emergence Network and the host of the online course We Will Dance with Mountains.
Our guest is committed to rethinking how we engage with crisis and agency and exploring new ways to conceive of what it means to be human. Tuning in, listeners will get a hearty, digestible taste of Bayo's work and philosophy, and where his inspiration for a better, less anthropocentric world stems from.
In our conversation, we talk about the inherent tendencies of an individualized and human-centered worldview, the links between shadows and fears, and how embracing a less binary conception of good and bad can unleash their transformative power. We also touch on what fatherhood means to Bayo and his experience of intergenerational effects in tension with agency and determination. Join us to hear it all from this wonderful guest.
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Key Points From This Episode:
Bayo's story of growing up; early years in Lagos, and his journey to a different understanding of his life.
Unpacking Bayo's use of the terms 'crystal-centrism' and 'posthumanism.’
The enlightenment-era roots of the way humans engage with the world and crisis.
Escaping dangerous kinds of individualized thinking.
Bayo's excitement about the book he is currently writing.
Teaching and learning in new ways; Bayo introduces how he thinks about the idea of a 'next economy.’
Bayo talks about fear, fatherhood, and intergenerational effects.
Some thoughts on misconceptions about recycling, and the failure of our solution-mindset.
How to get involved and engage with the work that Bayo is doing!
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Tweetables:
“The things that I talk about are secreted by my attempts to be a father to my daughter, and attempts to meet my son.” — @BayoAkomolafe
“Humans are not all that, we are not going to solve our way out of this crisis.” — @BayoAkomolafe
“The way we think about the crisis is often the crisis.” — @BayoAkomolafe
“These days I'm thinking about the ways that the human is supported and perpetuated by post-human or monstrous arrangement.” — @BayoAkomolafe
“It is very humbling to revisit the human, not as this magisterial decree of independence but as something that is quite organic and creaturely and fragile.” — @BayoAkomolafe
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Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Bayo Akomolafe — https://www.bayoakomolafe.net/
These Wilds Beyond Our Fences — https://www.powells.com/book/-9781623171667/1-0
We Will Tell Our Own Story — https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780982532768
The Emergence Network — http://www.emergencenetwork.org/
We Will Dance with Mountains — https://course.bayoakomolafe.net/
Bayo Akomolafe on Twitter — https://twitter.com/bayoakomolafe
The Problem with Jon Stewart — https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_problem_with_jon_stewart
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